Abstracts of
VIRGINIA
1741-1749
Submitted by Joseph Horned
Brief explanation: How were Land Patents issued in
the 1600's?
From the Library of Virginia's "VA Notes" on Headrights:
"In order to encourage
immigration into the colony, the Virginia Company, meeting in a Quarter Court
held on 18 November 1618, passed a body of laws called Orders and
Constitutions which came to be considered "the Great Charter of
privileges, orders and laws" of the colony. Among these laws was a
provision that any person who settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation
expenses of another person who settled in Virginia should be entitled to receive
fifty acres of land for each immigrant. The right to receive fifty acres per
person, or per head, was called a headright. The practice was continued under
the royal government of Virginia after the dissolution of the Virginia Company,
and the Privy Council ordered on 22 July 1634 that patents for headrights be
issued."
George Bagley, 400 acs. Amelia Co. on the N. side of
Mallorys Cr., on the long Br.; adj. Nathaniel Roberson, Pressley &
Edward Roberson; 5 June 1746, p. 245.
Samuel, William, Hezekiah & Moses Yarbrough,
1,372 acs. Amelia Co. on both sides of Little Nottoway Rive and Mallorys Cr.;
adj. their fathers lines, Henry Yarbrough, Beasly, Bumpas, Watson, Edward
Robinson & Presley; 5 June 1746, p. 54.
Edward Roberson, 500 acs. Amelia Co. on both sides of
Malorys Cr., adj. Pressly; 25 July 1746, p. 161.
Source:
Cavaliers and Pioneers
Marion Nell Nugent, 1934
Published by the Library of Virginia
